The big Catt is 支援する as captain as Croke Park flops 支払う／賃金 the price

England have asked マイク Catt to clean up another 罰金 mess on Sunday as their oldest captain at Twickenham for almost 50 years.

Just as Sir Clive Woodward sent for the ageless centre to dig his 可決する・採択するd country out of a 深い 穴を開ける at the last World Cup, so Brian Ashton has 解任するd him in his 36th year to dig them out of a deeper one against フラン at the 週末.

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Desperate 状況／情勢s 需要・要求する desperate 対策 and England's 長，率いる coach pulled no punches yesterday in 強調ing that this is more desperate than most.

At an age when normal centre-threequarters have long past their 実験（する） sell-by dates, rugby's Red Adair comes 支援する on a 解雇する／砲火／射撃-fighting 使節団 arguably more fraught than the one he put out in 救助（する）ing Jonny Wilkinson from a Welsh 炎 halfway through the quarte r-final in Brisbane almost four years ago.

Catt, the oldest player to lead England into a Five-Six Nations match since the late Eric Evans of Sale 屈服するd out in 1958, takes 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 of a team barely recognisable from the one hounded all over Croke Park by Ireland.

Eleven days on, Ashton can see that （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域ing for what it was, 確定／確認 of England's continuing 拒絶する／低下する. "I said to the players the other day: 'We are now in 分割 Two of world rugby'," he said. "We shouldn't be but that's where we are.

"We need to move up the world ladder again. For the last three years or so we've been going the other way and other teams have been pulling away from us so the gap has 広げるd.

"England have been in 安定した demise since 2003. As I told the players: 'We have to recognise that and start taking strides to get 支援する into 分割 One and we are playing a 分割 One team on Sunday'."

As soon as hope had been abandoned of Phil Vickery 回復するing from Jason Hobson's punch on Sunday afternoon, Ashton took Catt aside and gave him the news.

They go 支援する a very long way, to the time 15 years ago when a 20-year-old Anglo-South African student from Port Elizabeth bowled up at Bath during a holiday visiting 親族s in his mother's native West country.

"I've been 伴う／関わるd with マイク since he played his first game in England in 1992," Ashton, then Bath's assistant coach, said. "If there is one player in English rugby who knows the way I went to develop the game, it's got to be マイク Catt.

"He is 権利 at the centre of what's going on out there. I am putting my money on him 存在 able to 配達する the sort of game I want England to play, or help 配達する it. We need someone of his experience to help guide the 味方する 一連の会議、交渉／完成する the field.

"I am やめる open about it - this is not a long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 captaincy thing and he knows that. We are all 有罪の of the way England has played over the last two matches against Italy and Ireland.

"I felt it important to give the 大多数 of the players the 適切な時期 to show what they could do against a team like Ireland from 分割 One of world rugby. They did not come up to the 仕事."

正確に／まさに how many can be deduced from the fact that only four start against フラン as they did against Ireland - マイク Tindall at outside centre, Harry Ellis at scrum half, George Chuter at hooker and Joe Worsley at blindside.

Three of the eleven changes, compared to 13 for Ashton's first game against Scotland, have been 軍隊d by 傷害s to Vickery, Jonny Wilkinson and Andy Farrell.

Julian White is 解任するd at tighthead, Toby Flood makes a worthy 十分な debut at 飛行機で行く half in place of his hamstrung Newcastle 同僚 and Farrell's 支援する 苦痛 explains why Catt is 支援する for another of his 99 lives.

That he is now 始める，決める fair to become England's oldest 戦後の 支援する by celebrating his 36th birthday at the World Cup in September is a mighty 尊敬の印 to his 耐えるing 技術s as a midfield visionary - not bad for someone once jeered at Twickenham in his 早期に days as a late 代用品，人 for Jeremy Guscott.

As for the hypothesis over his choice of inside centre had Farrell been fit, Ashton dodged the 問題／発行する on the grounds that he doesn't do "hypothetical" questions. What he did say on the 支配する 量d to a 強健な 拒絶 of the flak which had come Farrell's way since Dublin.

"Andy was our 最高の，を越す tackler with 17 取り組むs, he had one of the lowest error counts and copped a lot of 批評," Ashton said. 'It would be nice to have a team 十分な of players who made 17 取り組むs and only two mistakes all match.

"This is my fourth game in 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金. A lot of other coaches have had four or five years to get it 権利. I 港／避難所't the faintest idea what will happen to me if it doesn't work against フラン. i don't care what the critics say about me - I've gone past that 行う／開催する／段階 in life."

In choosing his spiritual 被保護者, Catt, to get the message across, Ashton 拒絶するd the idea of 復帰させるing ツバメ Corry but gave the ex-captain a new challenge.

Ashton's ration ale in 押し進めるing him up to the second 列／漕ぐ／騒動, which is where his 前任者, Andy Robinson, had （ーのために）とっておくd Corry for the World Cup, is to galvanise a 前線-five 本気で short of a dynamic 辛勝する／優位.

Of the tight 今後s on 義務 in Dublin, only Chuter 生き残るs. Perry Freshwater is 取って代わるd by the 一貫した Wasp Tim Payne with Corry and Tom Palmer forming a new second-列／漕ぐ／騒動 同盟 at the expense of Danny Grewcock and Louis 助祭.

Nick 復活祭, capped against Italy, fills the vacancy at No 8 in a redesigned 支援する 列／漕ぐ／騒動 featuring the （死）刑の執行猶予（をする）d Worsley on one 味方する and Wasps flier Tom Rees instead of Magnus Lund on the other.

England: J Lewsey (Wasps); D Strettle (Harlequins), M Tindall (Gloucester), M Catt (London Irish, capt), J Robinson (Sale); T Flood (Newcastle), H Ellis (Leicester); T Payne (Wasps), G Chuter (Leicester), J White (Leicester); M Corry (Leicester), T Palmer (Wasps); J Worsley (Wasps), N 復活祭 (Harlequins), T Rees (Wasps).

代用品，人s: L Mears (Bath), S Turner (Sale), L 助祭 (Leicester), M Lund (Sale), M Tait (Newcastle), S Geraghty (London Irish), S Perry (Bristol).